Some of the best lectures from Red Bull Music Academy

For many years the energy drink Red Bull have put on mini-festivals, encouraged musical collaborations and interviewed great musicians and producers. This is all part of their Red Bull Music Academy, always touring around the world.

Here are just some of the deep interviews they've conducted with musical legends, and you can find hundreds more on their website, complete with transcriptions for many of them.

RBMA lecture by Greg Wilson in Melbourne, 2006:

RBMA lecture by Derrick May in Melbourne, 2006:

RBMA lecture by DJ Premier in Toronto, 2007:

RBMA lecture by Carl Craig in Toronto, 2007:

RBMA lecture by Steve Reich in London, 2010:


RBMA lecture by Andrew Weatherall in Madrid, 2011:


RBMA lecture by Wu-Tang Clan, 2011:


RBMA lecture by Trevor Horn in Madrid, 2011 (part 1):

RBMA lecture by Trevor Horn in Madrid, 2011 (part 2):

RBMA lecture by Nile Rodgers in Madrid, 2011 (part 1):


RBMA lecture by Nile Rodgers in Madrid, 2011 (part 2):


RBMA lecture by Tony Visconti in Madrid, 2011 (part 1):

RBMA lecture by Tony Visconti in Madrid, 2011 (part 2):


RBMA lecture by Ali Shaheed Muhammad in Los Angeles, 2012:


RBMA lecture by François Kevorkian in New York, 2013:


RBMA lecture by Philip Glass in New York, 2013:

RBMA lecture by Giorgio Moroder in New York, 2013:

RBMA lecture by Q-Tip from A Tribe Called Quest in New York, 2013:

RBMA lecture by Tom Moulton in New York, 2013:


RBMA lecture by Masters At Work in New York, 2013:

RBMA lecture by Rakim in New York, 2013:

RBMA lecture by Brian Eno in New York, 2013:

RBMA lecture by Marley Marl in Tokyo, 2014:

RBMA lecture by Isao Tomita in Tokyo, 2014:

RBMA lecture by Harold Faltermeyer in Tokyo, 2014:

RBMA lecture by Mtume in Tokyo, 2014:

RBMA lecture by Haruomi Hosono in Tokyo, 2014:

RBMA lecture by D'Angelo in New York, 2014:

RBMA lecture by George Clinton in New York, 2015:

RBMA lecture by Laurent Garnier in Paris, 2015:

New DJ mix - "Get Funky Up In The Club" (July 2011)

Here is a 90 minutes mix of great dance tunes of various styles for non-purists.

It starts out with loungey soul at 104 BPM, moving slowly upward, through mid school hip hop and old school funk to disco to technological beats to breaks to dubstep to indiepop to drum'n'bass at 172 BPM, before giving you a rest with the last mellow Ninja Tune track.

You can stream/download from Mixcrate, or click here to download directly as 192kb/s MP3.

"Get Funky Up In The Club" for July:

• Shirley Bassey - Goldfinger (Propellerheads Mix)
• Ol' Dirty Bastard - Got Your Money (Feat. Kelis)
• Beastie Boys - Intergalactic (Fuzzy Logic Remix)
• Björk - Earth Intruders (XXXchange Remix)
• N.E.R.D. - Hot-N-Fun (Feat. Nelly Furtado)
• Kurtis Blow - The Breaks
• Chic - I Want Your Love (Todd Terje Edit)
• Holy Fuck - Red Lights
• Samim - Heater (Diplo Remix)
• Cut La Roc - Freeze
• Pendulum - Fasten Your Seatbelts (Feat. The Freestylers)
• I Blame Coco - Selfmachine (Subfocus Remix)
• Plump DJs - Weighed Down
• Thomas Rusiak - Hiphopper (Feat. Teddybears STHLM)
• Doing Time - I Was A Ye-Ye Girl (Feat. In-Grid)
• The Ting Tings - That's Not My Name
• Eric B. & Rakim - I Know You Got Soul (Acen Remix)
• Ed Rush & Optical - Heads Will Roll
• Cause 4 Concern - Eurotrash
• Koop - Summer Sun (Carlito Remix)
• Amon Tobin - Hey Blondie

Three new DJ mixes to listen to or download

I've been busy making DJ mixes lately, and I'll post them here from now on.

Here are three 60 minutes mixes, lots of really good music here. They are mostly mixed in key, as to sound good harmonically and melodically.




"Chilling By The Beach" for July. A mix for chilling out and relaxing to deep sounds.

Starts out at around 82 BPM, moving upward to around 102 BPM. Stream/download from Mixcrate, or click here to download directly as 192kb/s MP3:

• Anne Marie Almedal - Joy
• Innocence - Build (Frankie Knuckles Extended Mix)
• The Orb - Back Side Of The Moon (Under Water Deep Space Mix By Steve Hillage)
• Rockers Hi-Fi - Going Under
• Nebular Spool - A Plankton Affair
• Spooky - Strange Addiction (Dub Addiction)
• Bob Marley - Waiting In Vain (Ambient Dub By Bill Laswell)
• Frou Frou - Hear Me Out
• Justin Robertson - Love Movement (Ulrich Schnauss Remix)
• Akasha - Spanish Fly
• Caron Wheeler - Livin' In The Light (The Original Story)
• Kate Bush - Nocturn

"Dancing By The Pool" for May. A mix for chilling and dancing by the pool (if you've got one). Starts out with two more mellow tracks before going into more upbeat dance music.

Stream/download from Mixcrate, or click here to download directly as 192kb/s MP3:

• Begin - Optical Holiday (Part 2)
• Unni Wilhelmsen - Revolving Door (The Mungolian Jet Set Extended Radio Mix)
• Justice - D.A.N.C.E. (Alan Braxe & Fred Falke Remix)
• Mark Ronson & The Business Intl - Bang Bang Bang (U-Tern's Disco Dub)
• Lindstrøm & Christabelle - Baby Can't Stop (Idjut Boys Remix)
• The Human League - Love Action (I Believe In Love) (12" Version)
• An Der Beat - Funk (Knuf) (Jii-Hoo Ximer By Jori Hulkkonen)
• Animotion - Obsession (12'' Remix Version)
• Dølle Jølle - Balearic Incarnation (Todd Terje's Extra Døll Mix)
• Dennis Ferrer - Hey Hey (DF's Attention Vocal Mix)
• James Brown - It's A New Day (Regrooved By Slynk)
• The Jacksons - Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground) (Remix By John Luongo)
• Basement Jaxx vs The Clash - Romeo vs The Magnificent Dance (Mashup By 2 Many DJs)
• Khia vs Original Bongo Band vs Laid Back vs Switch - My Neck My Back vs Apache vs White Horse (Mashup By Party Ben)

"Dancing By The Pool" for July. A mix for chilling and dancing by the pool (if you've got one). Starts out at around 105 BPM, moving upward to around 123 BPM.

Stream/download from Mixcrate, or click here to download directly as 192kb/s MP3:

• Röyksopp - Happy Up Here (Datassette Remix)
• Florence And The Machine - You've Got The Love (Tom Middleton Vocal Mix)
• Vanessa Da Mata - Boa Sorte/Good Luck (Deeplick Remix) (Feat. Ben Harper)
• Fox The Fox - Precious Little Diamond (12")
• Pow Pow - Don't Leave Me Now (Velferd Remix)
• Cicada - Beautiful (Electric Blue)
• Elektrofant - Gospel Control
• The Chemical Brothers - Swoon (Boys Noize Summer Mix)
• Crazy Penis - Cruising
• Groove Armada - Get Down (Original Club Version)
• Bobby Thurston - Check Out The Groove
• Change - The Glow Of Love
• Brassroots - Good Life
• Fatboy Slim - Right Here, Right Now (Freemasons Remix)
• Air - Kelly Watch The Stars (Moog Cookbook Remix)
• Chilly Gonzales - You Can Dance